When one drives up to the entrance of the emergency unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital with a patient who cannot walk, it is not the doctor or the nurse they first look to but a group of persons who are in the background and whose roles are vital to the everyday operations of the hospital.
These frontline workers are referred to as attendants and their services sometimes go unnoticed. But when these men and women carefully remove a patient from a stretcher or utter simple words of assurance as they set them up in the wheelchair, it does not only comfort the patients but also their relatives who might be at their most vulnerable at that point.
Twenty-one-year-old Narissa Layne is one such attendant and seems the embodiment of a consummate professional. She not only takes her work seriously but actually loves what she does.
